[Fsfe-uk] Re: ECF/ESF

[MJ Ray]

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On 2004-10-04 10:30:47 +0100 david cozens <address@hidden> wrote:

> [...] Sunday:
> Local Neighbourhood Forum, "New Forms of Democracy"
> Debate, "Creating the Commons" (Open Source) Question
> Time, and screening of rough-cut ESF Video.  Entrance
> by donation: (£10 membership +£10/£5 per day). Bureau
> de Change sterling/euro/links. See:
> www.solidarityvillage.org.

Who can be there to participate in Creating the Commons on Sunday? I'll try to 
drop in on Saturday, but I really would prefer to avoid being away from home 
for four weekend days in a row if possible. I'll support anyone willing to 
attend on our behalf. http://letslink.org/solidarity/events/041016-creating.htm

It irritates me when supposedly freedom-minded people use the failed US 
trademark term "Open Source" instead of "free software", "free media" or 
similar terms. Are they scared to speak about freedom?

It would also be really good if people could ask the Creative Commons people to 
address the "comparable credit" and "anti-DRM" lawyerbombs and the "author name 
purge" and "supertrademark" bugs present in all their by-* licences. These 
issues have been dismissed by some CC people and ignored by most, but no 
material under a CC 2.0 licence can be free software. If you want more details, 
see Evan Prodromou's draft summary at 
http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html (which has a few bugs, but should 
give you the ideas) or ask me off-list.

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